Rich Froning — Using CrossFit to Train for the Outdoors

“Years and years of (competing), you get off the floor and you think you have to do that for the rest of your life, and you don’t do it one year and you’re kind of like, ‘Oh, there’s life outside of this.’” For many years, four-time Fittest Man on Earth and six-time Affiliate Cup winner Rich Froning trained to dominate the CrossFit Games floor. Since retiring, he’s been using his fitness to participate in other challenges like mountain biking races, multi-day hunting trips, and local competitions. Hear from the champion on how CrossFit has prepared him for the unknown and the unknowable of the outdoors, the impact CrossFit has on his kids, and whether he’ll return to competitive CrossFit once again. Presented by Wild Health → — CrossFit, LLC is the owner of the world-famous CrossFit® fitness brand. In the 20 years since its founding, CrossFit has grown from a garage gym in Santa Cruz, California, into the world’s most popular and effective training program for improving health and performance. CrossFit, LLC is the leading provider of accredited, performance-based training courses and certifications and has more than 125,000 credentialed coaches worldwide. The CrossFit program can be scaled to welcome people of all ages and abilities, and millions of people have already experienced CrossFit’s transformational benefits in more than 13,000 affiliated gyms across 155 countries. CrossFit, LLC also directs the CrossFit Games season, the world’s largest participatory sporting event, which, in 2023, had over 320,000 participants from over 180 countries who all competed for the title of Fittest on Earth®. Learn more about CrossFit → Find a CrossFit gym near you → Find CrossFit Courses near you → View CrossFit workouts → Subscribe to CrossFit email newsletters → Learn more about the CrossFit Games →